Ya, I was thinking of hard coding the text into the .jsjsjs$file$$too$, $but$$maybe$$the$$AJAX$$suggestion$$may$$work$$better$? $Not$$sure$$how$$to$$use$$AJAX$$though$, $so$$I$'$ll$$do$$a$$little$$research$. $Thanks$$everyone$$for$$the$$input$. =)

Is there a way to make an Ajax request against a local file? My desire is to read in an image from the local file system with the hopes of accessing pixel data.

I need this capability too. Can someone point me to some code that enables looking at the actual bytes of an image file (is this possible with an ajax request?) or some other way of getting the pixel data?

In keeping with this, as stated above, there's no write ability in the Pre (without the com.palm name) correct?

If I wanted to create/write a file after I have finished processing certain information... would it be possible to do that, currently?

Well, technically, there is a write function in my FileMgr service that's available for devs to use, but given Palm's App Catalog doesn't support custom services, you'd be locking yourself out of that, commiting such an app to a life of homebrew